I got some comments on my Blackboard iPad post specifically regarding the push toward native—and therefore proprietary—apps and away from standards-based web apps. This concern is just one example of a constellation of complaints about how Apple is too closed. I understand those complaints and am not going to argue with them here. But whether […]
Should Pandora Have Opened the Box?
A few days ago, I had the following Twitter exchange with Anya Kamenetz: Me: @opencontent @anya1anya Here’s why I fear the university system may be unable to adapt to open education: http://bit.ly/cF0Hby Anya: @mfeldstein67 as a system, probably not. Legacy assets/components? Yes. Roman Empire falls. Rome (city) thrives to this day. Me: @anya1anya Easier […]
Please Welcome Guest Blogger Laura Czerniewicz
With all the blogging I’ve been doing about mLearning apps the past couple of weeks, it has bothered me that the focus in the industry right now has been on the high-end devices. How many people in the entire world own an iPad right now? Maybe 300,000? I really wanted to learn more about how […]
Blackboard's iPad App and its implications
Ray Henderson has a post up about his sense of responsibility to customers regarding balancing innovation with mature products (careful refinements in features and support services to meet customer needs) versus innovation in new areas (bold thinking and experiments). It’s vintage Ray—thoughtful, balanced, and customer-focused. And while Ray is always the first person to admit […]
Gartner on Higher Education: a Conversation at Georgetown University
This is a guest post by Paul Heald. Paul is a teaching faculty member at George Washington University completing his master’s program in information systems technology in May 2010. Paul earned his Master’s degree in education from the University of Manchester and Bachelor’s degree from Keele University. He has taught and served as an administrator […]
Advice for mLearning App Developers
My colleague Mark Wilcox, now the product manager for Oracle Virtual Directory but formerly a developer at WebCT, wrote me with some good advice to mLearning developers: I wrote the first mobile app for WebCT as my last presentation at WebCT’s user conference before leaving. That may have been the first ever mobile app for […]
David Wiley on DIY U
Since it was David Wiley’s unique blend of relentless idealism and can-do pragmatism that first convinced me to give the open education movement a closer look, I was curious to know what he thought of the discussion about DIY U that is happening on e-Literate. So I asked him. His blog post response does not […]